THE second Social Service Oriented Award was given to Zamboanga City where social services take up an overwhelming 44 percent of current years’ budget due to their unending and relentless efforts to uplift families who are victims of calamities and ill-stricken members of the society who are financially incapacitated among others. The city also appropriated a big chunck of the budget for the implementation of programs for the Senior
Dante Francis Ang II and Blanca Mercado of The Manila Times and VP for Marketing & Sales of PHirst Park Homes Lorena Sales (third from left), category sponsor, present the award to Zamboanga City Mayor Maria isabelle Climaco-Salazar and Zamboanga City delegates